Hey @deborism, love the simplicity of your contest here:) Here's my entry:
I started steemin' around mid-December and a week and bit in, I went to comment on someone's post and I couldn't do it; in fact, it wasn't allowing me to to do anything...I would only get the dreaded "exceeded bandwidth" message. At the time, I only knew two people on here, one was @deancarter (a good friend) and one was @lzcypher (a guy I'd heard of here in Playa where I live). So I sent him a message on Discord, wondering what it meant. He replied that I had been upvoting and commenting so much, which was a good thing, but that I had exceeded by bandwidth limit, and proceeded to gift me with 5 STEEM to keep me going until I could earn enough on my own.
To me it was 'crazy' that a complete stranger would give me something out of the blue, simply to help me. That was the moment I fell in love with this platform. I promised him that I would pay it forward when I could, and I have been doing that regularly with #newbieresteemday and other random people I meet who seem like they could use a helping hand!
Thank you again for hosting this contest. Cheers :)